He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% match in speeches given days apart.
A plagiarism detection app found that Abe’s speech in Nagasaki on Sunday duplicated 93% of a speech he had given in Hiroshima three days earlier, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
The English-language versions of the speeches on Abe’s official website also show a high degree of duplication.
The opening paragraph mentions each city’s name, and continues: “I reverently express my sincere condolences to the souls of the great number of atomic bomb victims.
I also extend my heartfelt sympathy to those still suffering even now from the after-effects of the atomic bomb.”
“It’s the same every year,” Koichi Kawano, head of a hibakusha liaison council in Nagasaki, told the Mainichi Shimbun.
One survivor quoted by local media wondered why Abe had bothered travelling “all the way to Nagasaki”. »